Tuesday, July 6, 2021

What the hell can you do in Hull? The Museum Quarter. Statues of anti-slaver William Wilberforce and poet Andrew Marvel

 



Hull has a museum quarter featuring William Wilberforce, who campaigned against slavery.



Kingswood Retail Park, Kingston upon Hull. Details from Wikipedia'

Dress sculpture, Kingswood, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. This metal sculpture of a dress is in front of the Next store and the Gino D'Acampo My Restaurant at Kingswood Retail Park. There is nothing nearby that I could see to explain its provenance or relevance to the site.

Two famous characters came from Hull and contributed to the history of Hull and the history of England. William Wilberforce trail starts at the house where he was born and ends at the monument to him.

Anti-slaver William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce statue in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

William Wilberforce statue outside his birthplace in Hull, on the east cost of Yorkshire, England.

My other favourite is the marvellous Andrew Marvel, honoured by a statue.

  • Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.
    • Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791), as quoted in Once Blind : The Life of John Newton (2008) by Kay Marshall Strom, p. 225.


      • Andrew Marvel Statue in Hull. From Wikipedia.

      He wrote a poem, to his coy mistress:

      The grave's a fine and private place,
      But none, I think, do there embrace.

      He also wrote:

      Art is long but life is short.

      • Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line.

      And of Cronwell>


      Useful Websites

      https://wikitravel.org/en/Kingston_upon_Hull

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marvell

      https://www.visithull.org/to-do/streetlife-museum/

      About the Author of this blog post

      Angela Lansbury was born in Britain and toured around Hull, helped by the tourist board.

      About the Author

      Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

      Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

      About the Author Angela Lansbury

      The Author - Quick Quotations

      Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

      About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

      Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

      Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
      Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
      Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

      BHA
      Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on 
      bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha . 

      Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
      Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

      Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)
      Themes and word of the day are tentative

      2021
      JULY - JUBILANT JULY
      Theme/WOD Jubilant
      WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)
      1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)
      2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH
      Wed July 7th 
      Saturday 17th
      July 4th American Independence Day.

      2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST
      1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches
      2 Evaluations
      Wed 4th
      Sat 21

      2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER
      Wed 1st
      Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS
      Humorous Speech Contest
      Table Topics Contest

      2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER
      Wed 6th
      Sat 16th

      2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER
      Wed 3rd
      Sat 20th Wed
      Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.
      Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.
      Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

      2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER
      Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)
      Sat 18th
      Speech on 

      JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY
      Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past
      Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

      2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY
      Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year
      Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

      Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)
      Sat 19th

      2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH
      Theme
      Wed 2nd
      Sat 19
      March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

      2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS
      Wed 6th
      Sat 16th
      Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.
      Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April
       16

      2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY
      Wed 4th
      Sat 21

      2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE
      Wed 1st
      Sat 18th

      Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.
      Angela The Blogger 

      Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

      See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

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